Here comes the third friend in the Fiji trio! This little girl is Orange Bunga. You may have seen her in some comic strips already. Orange is 17, making her the oldest one in the group actually. Her tiny body and childish face makes it difficult for people to take her seriously. She has a little sister who is like ten years younger than her. Orange has big orange eyes that are sometimes covered by her heavy bangs. She will always have her hair in pigtails, this makes her look more childlike but she just likes to wear ribbons and stuff in her hair. The pigtails are just hair extensions. She is not very proud of her height so she drinks milk [strawberry milk] almost every day so she can become big and strong, but she’s not making any progress.

Her tiny self is good for eavesdropping on juicy gossip. Orange is a giant gossiper, and she spreads rumors or facts that are none of her business. The school newspaper sometimes asks Orange for the latest scoop if they are in a bind to fill pages. Orange will also take things the wrong way and blow them out of proportion. If Fiji wants a game that is too mature for her, she will get Orange to buy it for her since she legally can. Also, Orange loves ducks, all kinds. She thinks they are cute!

Here is something cool to note. Orange was not originally going to be a main character in the story. She was just there for support, but then I started to draw her better and she became one of the main 3 [Fiji, Koco, and Orange]. She replaced a girl named Jo. Jo didn’t look like Orange at all, in fact Jo is not even going to be in the comic, I took her out.

Fiji lives in a country called Reserve. It is a land mass surrounded by water AKA an island. Reserve is a territory of another country on the mainland. The name of that country is not important for none of the FR characters will visit that place any time soon. Fiji doesn’t live in the capital of Reserve, she lives in a city called River Pulse. It is called River Pulse because the river that runs through the city looks like a pulse on a heart monitoring machine. River Pulse is more of a urban location with a crappy football team and a busy airport.

Yes, Fiji Random takes place in a fictional universe. I know I mention that some characters are considered Asian, African American, etc. but that is just to give an idea of what they are. There technically is no Asia in this story. This story doesn’t take place in Japan or America so if anyone finds a cultural flaw in the manga don’t worry about it because the culture in FR doesn’t exist in the real world. Reserve is like a mixture of everything.

Equality – now there’s a word that the great city of Vanguard did not strive to uphold. Despite the declarations of equality among men that were consecrated in this very city, equality was nothing more than a myth. This was evidenced by the existence of the levels of the city, which lie below the plate that SURFACE was built upon. These domains were officially deemed as the ‘sub-levels’, but residents of Vanguard knew them as the ‘slums’, each numbered by the order in which they were stacked upon one another.Continue reading “Equality”→

Reese Cooper is a childhood friend of Anzu (Fiji’s sister). Reese is the same age as Anzu, 20. She’s not all that tall either. She attends the same college as Anzu and she works in the same place as Fiji. Reese is not as much shy as she is a total coward. Most people will say she is “just shy” but it goes beyond that. She is terrified of people, male and female. She is more afraid of males though.

Anzu Maide is the older sister of Fiji Maide and the best friend of Reese Cooper. She has a goody-goody personality and no one can really find any fault in her, although she can be selfish at times. Anzu is 20 years old and she attends the Mapp University majoring in psychology. She doesn’t live at home during the school year.

What is a school useless without? That’s right, Teachers. Pulse River High School is full of them. River Pulse is the name of the town Fiji lives in by the way… but her school’s name is Pulse River. King and Miss N are a couple of the teacher characters that run around in the world of Fiji Random. Let’s get a quick introduction to each of them shall we?

Koco Koga is a character in Black Streak’s comedy manga Fiji Random (FR). She is the best friend of the main character, Fiji, and she is very smart. By smart I mean book smart. She has tip top grades in her class but she lacks common sense. She’s not smart when it comes to real world stuff and this makes her look like an airhead to people who don’t know her well. Koco is lousy at solving riddles. Fiji knows this very well and asks her to solve them all the time to get a rise out out of her.